There are conflicting reports of Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina and Virginia joining the SEC

Radical realignment is dominating the news cycle in collegiate sports right now but what the SEC is going to do next is not quite clear.

Certain reporters are pointing to the conference adding four southern schools from the ACC as the next step of the SEC’s quest to monopolize the sport south of the Mason-Dixon line, while others are calling those reports ‘silly’.

Are Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, and Virginia bound to join the conference that has produced the last three national champions and five of the last seven title-winning teams overall in football?

SwimSwam’s Braden Keith believes the quartet is about to find out what ‘it just means more’ is all about:

CBS Sports’ Barrett Sallee, on the other hand, isn’t quite sold on that:

According to Keith, already existing SEC schools are reportedly holding up certain ACC schools from making the jump to the big leagues:

"“…money is a major factor along with recruiting clashes. Florida reportedly doesn’t want Miami to join, Tennessee doesn’t want UNC, and Kentucky doesn’t want Louisville. Louisville brings in the second-most revenue among ACC schools. Miami’s revenue isn’t public, but it’s estimated that they are near the top as well — plus they bring a hometown team in a huge market.”"

The SEC expanding is inevitable

With the Big Ten poaching UCLA and USC from the Pac-12, and the Big 12 preying on the remains of the conference (Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Washington) it is inevitable that the SEC further expands beyond the 16-team setup set to debut in 2025 when Texas and Oklahoma join.

From a pure regional standpoint, Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina and Miami would make the most sense, but it’d be fun to add UVA to settle some scores on the hardwood with a certain new-blood on the Plains year in and year out.